Intervention with Nurses to Address Intimate Partner Violence in Mexico City
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Description

This is a clinical approach to addressing intimate partner violence. The goal is to reduce violence against women, improve the use of community resources, increase safety planning, decrease reproductive coercion, and improve the quality of life and mental health of victims.
The intervention is carried out in health centers by nurses previously trained to perform intimate partner violence screening, referral support, and women’s health/safety risk assessments.

Impact evaluations

An impact evaluation concluded that, although reductions in levels of intimate partner violence were observed among women in the treatment and control groups, the intervention was not comparatively more effective to reduce intimate partner violence. On the other hand, those who received treatment had improved quality of life and mental health. In addition, nurses can play a supportive role in assisting women who have experienced intimate partner violence [1].
The study had an experimental design with a total sample size of 950 participants (480 in control clinics; 470 in treatment clinics) from the 42 clinics that participated in the program [1].

Bibliographic reference

[1] Gupta, J., Falb, K. L., Ponta, O., Xuan, Z., Campos, P. A., Gomez, A. A., ... y Olavarrieta, C. D. (2017). A nurse-delivered, clinic-based intervention to address intimate partner violence among low-income women in Mexico City: findings from a cluster randomized controlled trial. BMC medicine, 15(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-017-0880-y

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